The memorable but ungrammatical bromide from Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi could be the loose theme of Shereen Ismael’s slim volume on how the Canadian welfare state has deteriorated since 1989, when the House of Commons adopted its guileless resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Ismael says as much in the opening line of the preface to Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State: From Entitlement to Charity: “I grew up as the Canadian welfare state…
John Stapleton
John Stapleton worked for the Ontario government in the Ministry of Community and Social Services for 28 years in the areas of social assistance policy and operations. He is currently research director for the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults in Toronto.